The wet winter weather doesn’t seem to have deterred people from making garden centre visits so far this January as the GTN Bestsellers All Products Sales Index reports volume sales are up by 13% on last year and up 21% on 2018. Regular customer visits to the food hall of garden centres seems to be driving volume sales. Gates in Leicestershire have an organic milk vending machine in their new farm shop (pictured) that is creating new regular traffic...

Hayes Garden World has announced the sad passing of Mrs Elizabeth Ann Hayes, who died on Sunday 5th January 2020. Elizabeth, the devoted wife of the late Thomas Leith, was mother to Richard and the late Monica and much-loved grandmother of Martin and Megan.

One of the great benefits of AMES UK acquisition of Kelkay has been investment to drive business expansion.The site near Snaith, from where Kelkay's aggregate and paving operations are run, has been expanded by over 20% in preparation for the forecasted increase in garden centre business...

West Berkshire Council have approved plans for a major extension at Hillier’s Newbury garden centre...

DLF Seeds, the exclusive new distributor for Neudorff, is reporting strong pre-season orders for the German natural gardening pioneer’s product portfolio...

Tiptree-based Perrywood Garden Centre presented cheques for more than £21,000 raised in 2019 to its its chosen charities of the year last week...

Garden centre and horticultural industry staff can now (January, 2020) sign up for a fundraising event being held at the Garden Centre Association’s annual conference (January 26 – 29). Teams will compete for the Greenfingers Challenge Cup during an afternoon of ‘orse racin’ on January 26 at The Mercure Bristol, Grand Hotel to raise money for Greenfingers, which creates gardens at children’s hospices...

Brimsmore Gardens, part of The Gardens Group, have helped a local charity receive high praise from the RHS...

A study commissioned by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has highlighted that more than half of adults consider themselves to be ‘lonely’ because they are too busy or shy to socialise with others. The news comes as the RHS is set to unveil a Garden for the 2020 RHS Chelsea Flower Show, which will encourage the nation to make friends through gardening at a press conference today (Monday 20 January).

If you have a team of willing participants and a weekend spare, then the Bust Rallies’ Monte Carlo or Bust banger rally could be the perfect adventure. Even better, the Greenfingers charity has been granted 10 places for this fabulous event, meaning even more FUNdraising opportunities for the UK’s leading children’s hospice garden charity...

Garden centres will find plenty of inspiration at this year's IPM ESSEN (28 to 31 January 2020), including innovative and practical sales concepts and new presentation ideas...

Squire’s Garden Centres has rewarded some of its employees for making a difference to the business...

Pictured: all the 'Made a Difference' winners were treated to a special lunch served by management at Badshot Lea.

Dutch tulip growers created a gigantic pick-your-own garden containing 200,000 flowers in Amsterdam's Dam Square for National Tulip Day on Saturday...